PLAY THE MIDS!
Efa.
Iām not up to date on this thread, but Iāll add my voice to the āKeep him inā crew.
Just pour games into him, either as 3rd tall or 3rd back, whichever you would prefer to develop him as. Iād go 3rd tall forward mostly, but you might want to let him ease into it behind the ball all year.
Anyway. We just need to suck up some development time on Francis right now. And if that means we have to rebalance other parts of the team to do that, then so be it. (and by that Iām talking about the 16 midfield runners, vs 14 midfield runners + 2 inside poor runners who can win the ball etc mentioned in the ruck thread). If by playing Francis at half forward it means that we have to carry one less mature inside ball winner who canāt spread all day, then we have to do that I reckon.
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The one thing he does each game is sick as so leave him in
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We arenāt going to play finals this year.
Pump games into the players that will take us to finals in the next few years.
The quicker we get this group below to playing 50 games together the better.
Hurley, Hooker, Daniher, Parish, Zerrett, Langford, Laverde, Francis, McGrath, Fantasia.
Itās these 10 that will bring us success in the near future.
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Yep, play him. Heās got some special stuff about him and the only way heās going to get match fit is playing matches. Not as if he was shocking yesterday either.
As someone said last week, lock him in a room with only a treadmill and feed him (not much) through the space between the door and the ground. Great talent, hope he makes the most of it.
plays every game this year
Why would you not feed him much?
He isnāt even close to being overweight. His fitness is actually fine.
He is growing into his body which has probably just stopped growing.
Is a genuine 6 foot 5 player now.
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I still think heāll develop better in the seconds. I donāt want him learning to be third tall in the firsts, I want him to learn to dominate in one of the two major positions.
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Whenever he does get the ball itās awesome, just got to get it near him.
Keep playing him!!
Had he of kicked those 3 goals weād be looking at a 13 possession 3 goal game in his 5th game!
Mark my words, he will kick 4 goals in one game within the next 6 weeks.
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- Hepp!
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Ah of course!
11 players - thatās more than enough of a core group to lead us into the next phase of success.
They just NEED to play 50 games together.
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Not a bad haul for about 17 minutes of footy
Huh?
Ah, no itās not
Have you seen him live? Heās legit out on his feet 10x more than anyone halfway through the second. I watched him with maybe, 10 minutes to go in the second and he constantly had his hands on his hips, bent over sucking in air, barely jogging across half forward. Heās a huge talent, but heās not fit enough. I reckon he has about 10 minute burst in him per quarter at the moment
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Iām suggesting he doesnāt play 4 quarters of yetā¦
Maybe he has heavy freckles?
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Frankly I think Smack delivers a better standard of footy in every facet.
Contested marks, long goals, clearance workā¦check, check, check, Smack does more of all thatā¦probably covers more ground as well.
All Francis has on his side is time to try and become much better, but he has a long way to go.
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